<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Anon -Allan K. Chalmers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55505]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1784]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471   It is no great matter to associate with the good and gentle; for this is a naturally pleasing to all, and everyone willingly enjoyeth peace, and loveth those best that agree with him. But to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a great grace, and a most commendable thing.  ... Thomas à Kempis July 25, 2000 Feast of James the Apostle  When Jesus calls his disciples "brothers" and "friends", he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696]]></link><description><![CDATA[''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't havebefore,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. Itbasically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'It's simple, but it works.''source: Boston Globe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our mayor, who was very busy last year learning how to be a mayor, this year actually took a wonderful leadership role, got into the budget with both feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49696]]></link><description><![CDATA[One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't long for the unripe grape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27067]]></link><description><![CDATA[All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, who cries out on pride That can therein tax any private party?  Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea   Till that the weary very means do ebb?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55045]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58790]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it unfair to suggest that, in some of us at least, [Christianity] hasn't fully worked so far simply because, at the pinch, at the decisive moment, we don't want it to work or ourselves to be lifted up above the failings and disloyalties we find so alluring, but rather to be enabled to continue them without the ugly consequences of so doing, to have the inexorable laws of life bent aside in our favour, so that we can squeeze through and escape, without reaping what we have sown; because, as we misunderstand it, the whole point of the good news our Lord brings is the (to us) gladsome announcement that God is happily much more morally indifferent than our consciences had thought, and is not going to make a fuss about our sins and such-like trivial peccadilloes, but will surely let us off -- because, in fact, we have not grasped that the core and essence of the Gospel... is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;  They have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12864]]></link><description><![CDATA[And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;  They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,   They take a weight from off our waking toils,    They do divide our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy of fifteen who is not a democrat is good for nothing, and he is no better who is a democrat at twenty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. [Lat., Pars beneficii est, quod petitur, si cito neges.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39025]]></link><description><![CDATA[(S)ex scenes and bathroom jokes are my bread and butter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48311]]></link><description><![CDATA[We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me, this is the most important game since we played Moody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me, this is the most important game since we played Moody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20586]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of God's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7668]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of God's Spirit is present everywhere and at all times. Our environment itself -- our home and our job -- is the medium through which we experience His moulding action and His besetting love. It is not Christian to try to get out of our frame, or to separate our outward life from our life of prayer, since both are the creation of one Charity. The third-rate little town in the hills, with its limited social contacts and monotonous manual work, reproves us when we begin to fuss about our opportunities and our score. And this quality of quietness, ordinariness, simplicity, with which the saving action of God enters history, endures from the beginning to the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62379]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then the wren gan scippen and to daunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise;  Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say   What this tumultuous body now denies;    And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;     And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We always strive for that which is forbidden, and desire that which is denied us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60868</guid></item></channel></rss>